{"id":988,"date":"2017-01-18T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/?p=64772\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:22:05","slug":"fishing-for-chicken-and-burger-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2017\/01\/18\/fishing-for-chicken-and-burger-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for chicken and burger construction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For some time now, I have been secretly entertaining the idea of going vegan. Not even because of any particular belief but just Google veganism and you\u2019ll be swamped with success stories: vegan diets give you more energy, your skin will glow and it can even alleviate PMS.<\/p>\n

Besides, I\u2019ve been allergic to dairy products for a few years now so it would only be a small step to ban all animal products from my diet.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I read an article about \u201cVeganuary\u201d: only eating vegan food in January. This was my big chance. I decided to start by going vegan for one week.<\/p>\n

Mega-healthy seed mix<\/h3>

It got off to a bad start on Monday: I added a packet of bacon strips to my dinner. Luckily, I could justify it by telling myself that bacon won\u2019t keep forever and that throwing meat away unnecessarily is worse than eating it.<\/p>\n

Tuesday was alright. For breakfast, I had oats with fruit. While preparing for my experiment, I made an urgent appeal for help on Facebook; after all, how do you make oats palatable? After many attempts and much suffering I finally mastered it: just add pieces of apple.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, I bought a kind of probiotic, super-posh, mega-healthy seed mix to sprinkle on the oats. It seemed a safe bet, but on closer inspection, the mix contained honey powder \u2013 honey is not vegan. Another fail.<\/p>\n\n\t

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I spent most of Thursday on the loo. What they say is true: your body gets completely messed up if you suddenly replace all the animal products in your diet with water and fibre.<\/p>\n

On Friday, I constructed burgers from chickpeas. You see, I\u2019d been hungry all day and I\u2019m sure that\u2019s wrong. So I went for protein.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, I had dinner at a friend\u2019s house. I fished the chicken out of the curry on my plate. By now, I was so drained I didn\u2019t even mind any more.<\/p>\n

What about Sunday? On Sunday, I ate a hamburger. It was much tastier than the chickpea burger and instead of feeling guilty, I mostly thought: ah yes, that\u2019s how it feels when you\u2019re full. Perhaps it means I should eat meat once a week, exactly as I did before I decided to experiment.<\/p>\n

And yet another New Year\u2019s resolution comes to an untimely end.<\/p>\n\n\t

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